Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear Engineering

QUALIFICATION

  • First Stage of Higher Education - Bachelor of Technics and Technologies

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

Осы бағдарламаны аяқтағаннан кейін бакалаврлар келесі қабілеттерге ие болады деп күтіледі
ОН1 – Бітіруші жазбаша және бейресми қарым-қатынас пен баяндамаларды мемлекеттік қазақ тілінде, орыс тілінде, мүмкін ағылшын тілінде жүргізе алады.
ОН2 – Бітірушінің ойлау мәдениеті қалыптасады, ақпаратты жалпылау, талдау, қабылдау, мақсат қою және оған жету жолдарын таңдау, өзінің күшті және әлсіз жақтарын сыни тұрғыдан бағалай білу, күшті жағын дамытып, әлсіз жақтарымен күресу жолдарын таба білу.
ОН3 – Бітіруші өзінің кәсіби біліктілігі саласында өз бетінше де, әріптестерімен бірге де тиімді жұмыс істеуге дайын болады және мансап жолында кәсіби дамуға ұдайы ұмтылып отыратын болады.
ОН4 – Бітіруші кәсіби қызметінде жаратылыстану ғылымының негізгі заңдылықтарын қолдана алауымен қатар, математикалық талдау және модельдеу әдістерін, теориялық және эксперименттік зерттеу әдістерін қолдана алады.
ОН5 – Бітірушінің жаратылыстану ғылымдарының, соның ішінде жалпы классикалық физика, химия, атом және ядролық физиканың негізгі заңдылықтары туралы түсінігі қалыптасады.
ОН6 – Бітірушілер стандартты компьютерлік код пакеттерін біледі, жобалау мен талдауға арналған, сондай-ақ ақпаратар және мәліметтерді сақтауға, өңдеуге арналған стандартты әдістерді және компьютерлік кодтарды қолдана алады.
ОН7 – Бітірушіде ядролық реакторлар, иондаушы сәулелердің адамға және қоршаған ортаға радиациялық әсері, ядролық физика саласындағы құбылыстар мен заңдылықтарды эксперименттік және теориялық зерттеудің математикалық моделі, қоршаған ортаның экологиялық мониторингі туралы, ядролық материалдар, атом өнеркәсібі және энергетика саласының объектілері мен қондырғыларының қауіпсіздігін қамтамасыз ету туралы түсініктерді қалыптасады.
ОН8 – Бітіруші ядролық реактордың элементтерінде болып жатқан процестерді физикалық, математикалық және сандық модельдеуді жүзеге асыра алады, сондай-ақ ядролық инженерия саласында теориялық және эксперименттік зерттеулер жүргізе алады.
ОН9 – Бітірушілерде ядролық реакторлардың материалдары және олардың қауіпсіздігін қамтамасыз ету жүйелері, ядролық және физикалық қондырғылардың заманауи электрондық схемалары, ядролық физика қондырғыларын автоматтандырылған басқару, құрылғыларды әзірлеу және пайдалану технологиясы туралы түсінік қалыптасады.
ОН10 – Бітірушінің бойында қауіпсіздік жауапкершілігі және қауіпсіздік мәдениеті қалыптасады, соның ішінде, қауіп-қатерге талдау жасау және оны басқару, адам факторлары, адам-машина әрекеттесуі туралы түсінік қалыптасады.
ОН11 – Бітіруші атом электр станцияларының немесе басқа атомдық қондырғылардың негізгі жүйелері мен құрамдас бөліктерін есептеу, жобалау процесіне қатыса алады, сондай-ақ ядролық қондырғыларды ретке келтіру процесін түсінеді.
ОН12 – Бітіруші атом электр станциялары мен атом қондырғыларын лицензиялаудағы және пайдалануға берудегі ұйымдастыру процесі мен басқарушы органның рөлін түсінеді.
По завершении данной программы ожидается, что бакалавры будут способны
РО1 – Выпускники будут способны осуществлять письменное и неформальное общение и доклады на своем государственном казахском языке, на русском языке, возможно, и на английском языке.
РО2 – Выпускники будут владеть культурой мышления, способны к обобщению, анализу, восприятию информации, постановкой цели и выбору путей ее достижения, способны критически оценивать свои достоинства и недостатки, находить пути развития достоинств и устранения недостатков.
РО3 – Выпускники будут иметь готовность работать как самостоятельно, так и со своими коллегам в сфере своей профессиональной квалификации и стремятся к профессиональному развитию на протяжении всей своей карьеры.
РО4 – Выпускники будут способны использовать основные законы естественнонаучных дисциплин в профессиональной деятельности, применять методы математического анализа и моделирования, теоретического и экспериментального исследования.
РО5 – У выпускников сформируется понятие об основных законах естественных наук, включая общую классическую физику, химию, атомную и ядерную физику.
РО6 – Выпускники будут знать стандартные пакеты компьютерного кода, уметь применять стандартные методы и компьютерные коды для проектирования и анализа, также к хранению, обработке информации и данных.
РО7 – У выпускников сформируется понятие об ядерных реакторах, радиационном воздействии ионизирующих излучений на человека и окружающую среду, математической модели для экспериментального и теоретического исследования явлений и закономерностей в области физики ядра, экологическом мониторинге окружающей среды, обеспечении безопасности ядерных материалов, объектов и установок атомной промышленности и энергетики.
РО8 – Выпускники будут уметь проводить физическое, математическое и численное моделирование процессов происходящих в элементах атомного реактора, а также проводить теоретические и экспериментальные исследования в области ядерной инженерии.
РО9 – У выпускников сформируется понятие о материалах ядерных реакторов и систем обеспечения их безопасности, современной электронной схемотехнике ядерных и физических установок, автоматизированном управлении ядерно-физических установок, разработке и технологии применения приборов.
РО10 – Выпускники берут на себя обязательства по безопасности и сформируется понимание о культуре безопасности, включая анализ и управление рисками, разработка человеческого фактора и взаимодействие человек-машина.
РО11 – Выпускники будут способны участвовать в процессе расчета, проектирования основных систем и компонентов атомных электростанций или других ядерных объектов, а также понимать процесс регулирования ядерных установок.
РО12 – Выпускники понимают процесс регулирования и роль регулирующего органа в лицензировании и эксплуатации атомных электростанций и ядерных установок.
Upon completion of this program, it is expected that undergraduates will be able to
LO1 – Graduates are capable of performing written and informal communications and reports in their Kazakh and/or Russian language, and possibly English.
LO2 – Graduates will have a culture of thinking, capable of generalizing, analyzing, perceiving information, setting a goal and choosing ways to achieve it, able to critically assess their strengths and weaknesses, find ways to develop strengths and eliminate weaknesses.
LO3 – Graduates are capable of working independently and with their colleagues within the framework of their professional qualifications, and has a commitment to professional development throughout their career.
LO4 – Graduates will be able to use the basic laws of natural sciences in their professional activities, apply the methods of mathematical analysis and modeling, theoretical and experimental research.
LO5 – Graduates understand the basic laws of natural sciences, including classical physics, chemistry, atomic and nuclear physics.
LO6 – Graduates understand the basic approaches for acquiring, storing and processing knowledge, information and data, be familiar with standard computer code packages.
LO7 – Graduates will form the concept of the nuclear reactors, radiation effects of ionizing radiation on humans and the environment, a mathematical model for experimental and theoretical study of phenomena and regularities in the field of nuclear physics, environmental monitoring of the environment, ensuring the safety of nuclear materials, objects and installations of the nuclear industry and energy.
LO8 – Graduates will be able to carry out physical, mathematical and numerical modeling of processes which occure in the elements of the nuclear reactor, as well as conduct theoretical and experimental research in the field of nuclear engineering.
LO9 – Graduates will form the concept of the materials of nuclear reactors and systems for ensuring their safety, modern electronic circuitry of nuclear and physical installations, automated control of nuclear installations, development and technology of using devices.
LO10 – Graduates will make a commitment to safety and develop an understanding of safety culture, including risk analysis and management, human factors, and human-machine interaction.
LO11 – Graduates will be able to participate in the process of calculation, design of the main systems and components of the nuclear power plant or other nuclear facilities, as well as understand the process of regulation of nuclear installations.
LO12 – Graduates understand the regulatory process and the role of the regulator in the licensing and operation of the nuclear power plant and nuclear installations.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Nuclear Engineering
Speciality Code
6B07114
Faculty
of Physics and Technology

disciplines

Analysis and Tools for Processing of Experimental Data
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - In this course, students will learn how to perform experimental data analysis, how various components of detection systems inter-relate in nuclear physics. The student will learn both analog and digital techniques for data analysis, including multiplexing, data conversion and error detection and correction. The laboratory exercises will give the student hands-on experience on how measurement systems work. Proper data reporting techniques will also be emphasized.

Atomic Physics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline goal is to form a scientific understanding of the physics of elementary particles, in particular the structures and properties of atoms and molecular systems, as well as their descriptions. Within the framework of the discipline, issues related to conservation laws during optical transitions, atomic models, Bohr's postulates, properties of atomic nuclei and molecular systems will be considered.

Basics of Atomic Physics and Quantum Mechanics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline teaches basic phenomena of the quantum physics and experimental background, particles and atomic models. Course content: black-body radiation, line spectra, photoelectric effect, Compton-dispersion. Bohr's atomic model. The eigenvalue problem, stationary states, operators. Particle in a box, the harmonic oscillator. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations. Three-dimensional systems. One-electron atoms. Many-electron atoms. Electron configurations, periodic system, Fermions and bosons.

Calculus 1
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline is to form of mathematical culture of students. The discipline is aimed at studying the foundations of matrices, complex numbers and differential calculus; the concept of basic mathematical methods for matrices, complex numbers and differential calculus; application of methods for solving engineering problems; analysis and evaluation of engineering tasks; solving and evaluating problems using matrices, complex numbers and differential calculus.

Calculus 2
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This course is a continuation of the “Calculus I”. The discipline is aimed at studying indefinite integrals, integration methods. The followings will be considered: indefinite integral, techniques of integration, arc length, volumes and surface areas of solids of revolution, improper integrals, sequences and infinite series, Taylor series, vectors and analytic geometry in 3-space, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, directional derivatives, tangent plane, extreme values, double integrals.

Chemistry and Physics of Nuclear Fuels
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - During this course, students will study different types of nuclear fuels. They will learn how to evaluate the thermo-chemical properties of nuclear fuels and predict chemical reactions between materials in the reactor core. They will be taught how to determine mechanical and thermal stresses and limits for fuel rods and calculate corrosion potentials. Students will also gain knowledge on identifying major safety issues that emerge with increasing burn-up.

Differential equations
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Objective: to acquaint students with basic concepts and methods for solving ordinary differential equations, principles of mathematical modeling of applied problems of the theory of differential equations; is to acquaint students with the theory and current problems of the partial differential equation and modern methods for solving them. Tasks: the basic concepts of ordinary differential equations, they are basic types of first-order differential equations and linear equations and systems with constant coefficients, the physical problems leading to partial differential equations.

Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Organizational, economic and pre-project justification for the creation of new technology. Marketing approach to R&D. Justification of the expediency of implementing the project for its intended purpose. Methods for substantiating calculations of financial and economic indicators of engineering projects. Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of projects of various types.

Electricity and Magnetism
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of this course is to extract the laws of electromagnetism from our daily experience with specific examples of how electromagnetic phenomena manifest themselves. Course content: Electrostatics, Conductors, Capacitors, and Dielectrics, Electric Circuits, Magnetic Fields, Electromagnetism. Upon completion of the course, students will have a strong conceptual understanding of physics and well-developed skills in performing and analyzing laboratory work.

Engineering Mechanics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course provides the basic concepts and skills required for structural and mechanical design. The discipline is a problem-oriented course that helps engineering students develop the ability to understand and analyze static forces on a variety of structures and engineering applications.

Fluid mechanics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course: to give an understanding of the basic laws, principles and phenomena in the field of fluid mechanics, to provide the ability to solve simplified examples of fluid mechanics, to provide theoretical and practical training that will allow students to apply the acquired knowledge and skills in professional and specialized courses.

Foreign Language
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form the improvement of knowledge of foreign language communicative competence. The main methods of speech skills and foreign language communication skills are considered as a basis for the development of communicative competence; implementation of acquired speech skills in the process of searching, selecting and using material in English.

Fundamentals of programming in C++ and Python
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of this course is to introduce object oriented programming language C++ and Python with the objective to use object oriented features to develop efficient programs. The course will consider the program structure, blocks, storage types, console and file I/O, functions, arrays, strings, pointers, call-by-reference, call-by-value, and dynamic memory allocation, and differences between C, C++ and Python will be discussed.

General chemistry for engineers
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This discipline provides basic knowledge of chemistry, which is important for understanding how the processes and materials used throughout all fields of engineering work. The course will also teach engineering students how to do problem-solving with chemical concepts and provide a chemistry knowledge base of concepts and experimental techniques that they can carry forward into their future engineering careers.

Information-Communication Technologies
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: it consists in the formation of a new "digital" thinking, a critical understanding of the role and importance of modern information and communication technologies, the ability to apply information and communication technologies in various professional activities. They are being studied: the role of ICT in key sectors of society development is being studied. Architecture of computer systems. Software. Microsoft Office Internet technologies. Cloud and mobile technologies. Multimedia technologies. E-learning. Information technology in the professional field.

Kazakh (Russian) Language
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: ensuring the qualitative assimilation of the Kazakh (Russian) language as a means of social, intercultural, professional communication through the formation of communicative competencies. The following are studied: the system of phonetic, lexical, grammatical means of language, ideas about language as a cultural phenomenon and about the specifics of speech culture; language as an element of the national linguistic picture of the world; the status of the Kazakh (Russian) language in the world space.

Linear algebra and Analytical Geometry
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to provide a basic general mathematical orientation, to form knowledge on the basics of higher algebra and to develop the ability to apply the method of vector algebra and the method of coordinates of analytical geometry in solving problems. During the study of the discipline master students will learn following aspects: The set of complex numbers. Systems of linear algebraic equations. Matrices and operations on matrices. Determinant’s theory. Vector space subspaces. Linear dependence, base, and rank of the vector system. Matrix rank theorems. Vector algebra. Scalar, vector, mixed product of vectors. Equations of lines and planes. Екінші ретті қисықтар мен беттердің канондық теңдеулері.

Mathematical analysis
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - During the study of the dis-cipline students will learn following aspects: The numerical sequencep; The function and its limit; Continuity; The derivative of a function; Higher-order derivatives; Lopital theorem; Local extremes of the function; The necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality; The indefinite integral and its properties; Table of integrals; The Newton-Leibniz.

Mechanics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of students’ scientific thinking, correct understanding of applicability limits of various physical concepts, laws, theories, and skills to assess the reliability of results of experimental research methods. Content: Mechanics. Kinematics. Mechanical motion as the simplest form of motion of matter. Dynamics of a material point and a solid. Weight. Force. Newton's laws. Conservation laws. Mechanics of continuous media. Oscillations.

Military Training
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - MC
  • Description - Military Training

Modelling and Simulation of Nuclear Power Installations
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Software complexes and mathematical models for theoretical and computational-analytical study of phenomena and regularities in the field of nuclear energy. Development of computational models for strength studies of advanced types of nuclear power plants, fuel and structural materials. Mapping of the neutron flux in a nuclear reactor. Criticality. Graduation (calibration) of control rods.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Culture)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Culture)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Political science)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Political science)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Psychology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Psychology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Sociology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Sociology)
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - RK1+RK2 (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Module of socio-political knowledge (Sociology/ Political science/ Culture/ Psychology)
  • Number of credits - 8
  • Type of control - RK + Exam (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: to develop the ability to explain and interpret subject knowledge in all fields of science, shaping of the discipline. Sociology and sociological perspectives, social structure, form of policy, organizational structure, institutions, the legal and organizational rules, content, purpose, value, policy, concept and essence of culture, semiotics of culture, psychology of personality, psychology of interpersonal communication will be studied.

Molecular Physics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge of physical theory based on observations, experiment and practical experience, explanation of the statistical nature of the laws of molecular physics; application of molecular physics in ecology and for ecosystems. Content: Molecular physics. Fundamentals of MKT. Thermodynamic parameters. Ideal gas. Statistical distributions. Pressure in liquid and gas. Bernoulli equation. Fluid flow modes. Beginnings of thermodynamics. Isoprocesses. Carnot cycle. Real gas. Equation of Clapeyron-Clausius.

Neutron Physics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Learning objectives are to teach students about the main aspects of Neutron Physics. Course content: Characteristics of neutron. Sources of neutrons. Neutrons of cosmic origin. The detection of neutrons. Neutron spectrometers. Neutron reactions and cross-sections. Interference and diffraction of neutrons. The absorption of neutrons and neutron radiography. The mechanism of slowing down neutrons in moderator. The average energy loss of neutron per collision. Diffusion of neutrons. Diffusion equation of monoenergetic neutrons. Induced nuclear fission. Chain reaction.

Nuclear fuel cycle
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline: to describe the production processes included in the nuclear fuel cycle. Course content: Uranium and thorium fuel cycles. Safety of nuclear fuel cycle facilities. Decommissioning of nuclear fuel cycle facilities. Bank of low-enriched uranium fuel. Experience and prospects of Kazakhstan in the development of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Nuclear Physics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of this course is to study the basic concepts of nuclear physics with an emphasis on the structure of the nucleus. The course gives an overview of modern nuclear physics, elementary particle physics. Properties of nuclei and nucleons, models for their description. Strong and weak interaction. Alpha, beta, gamma decay. Quantum numbers, symmetries and conservation laws. Nuclear isotopes and decay laws.

Nuclear plant safety design
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Basics of design engineering. Computer-aided design systems (CAD). Unified system of design documentation. Classification of safety systems. Design features of nuclear installations. Active and passive safety systems. Analog and digital safety systems. Interface between nuclear safety and nuclear security.

Numerical Methods in Nuclear Engineering
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This is an introductory course for students to learn how to use of numerical analysis and advanced analytical techniques for obtaining nuclear reactor parameters such as flux distributions, temperatures and transients. In this course, students will also learn how to make use of digital computers in obtaining nuclear reactor design information.

Philosophy
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form a systematic understanding of philosophy and its main problems and methods in the context of future professional activities. The main content of ontology and metaphysics is considered in the context of the historical development of philosophy; the importance of key worldview concepts in the modern world.

Physical Training
  • Number of credits - 2
  • Type of control - РК(с оценкой)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of social and personal competencies of students, ensuring the targeted use of the appropriate means of physical culture and sports for preservation, preparation for professional activities. As a result of studying the discipline, the graduate should know the role of physical culture in human development.

Principles of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Recent nuclear facilities have widely adopted the electronic process control instruments and digital computers, so future nuclear engineers should know principles of electronics. During this course, students will study basic elements of electronics devices such as transistors and diodes and learn how to assemble electrical circuits using these basic building blocks.

Principles of thermodynamics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - This course puts emphasis on basic concepts of Thermal Physics which are integral to the field of Nuclear Engineering. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances. Definitions of work, heat, and energy, enthalpy, entropy, internal energy. First and second laws of thermodynamics and its application to fixed mass systems and control volumes. Analysis of thermodynamic cycles and their components.

Quantum Mechanics Basics
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The discipline teaches basic phenomena and principles of the quantum physics. Course content: black-body radiation, line spectra, photoelectric effect, Compton-dispersion. Bohr's atomic model. The eigenvalue problem, stationary states, operators. Particle in a box, the harmonic oscillator. Heisenberg's uncertainty relations. Three-dimensional systems. One-electron atoms.

Radioactive waste management
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Students will study nature of radioactive waste and its classifications by activity. They will study how to identify basic characteristics and forms of radioactive waste. They will learn how radioactive waste is produced at each stage of the nuclear cycle. Students will also learn basic principles of handling, transporting, storing and disposing technologies for each type of waste. They will study differences between on-site and off-site storage; spent fuel reprocessing and disposal methods; radioactive waste management plans and practices in various countries.

Statistics and probability for engineers
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course introduces principles of statistics and probability for undergraduate students of nuclear engineers. The course covers the basic concepts of probability, discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, expected values probability distributions. The course also covers statistical methods and topics including data summary and description techniques, sampling distributions.

Theory of Nuclear Reactions
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the course is to teach the basics of formal scattering theory, with methods for solving a multichannel problem with different approaches to describing the mechanisms of nuclear reactions. Course content: study of nonrelativistic and relativistic theory of nuclear reactions, the concept of a collision matrix, kinematics of nuclear reactions, S-matrix, Schrödinger equations for systems of colliding nuclei with the formation of final products of nuclear reactions.

Нistory of Kazakhstan
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [РК1+MT+РК2+ ГЭК] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to give objective knowledge about the main stages in the development of the history of Kazakhstan from ancient times to the present. Expected learning outcomes: 1) demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the main stages in the development of the history of Kazakhstan; 2) to correlate the phenomena and events of the historical past with the general paradigm of the world-historical development of human society through critical analysis; 3) to possess the skills of analytical and axiological analysis in the study of historical processes and phenomena of modern Kazakhstan; 4) be able to objectively and comprehensively comprehend the immanent features of the modern Kazakh model of development; 5) Systematize and give a critical assessment of historical phenomena and processes in the history of Kazakhstan. During the study of the discipline students will learn following aspects: Ancient people and the formation of a nomadic civilization, Turkic civilization and the Great Steppe, Kazakhstan in modern times (XVIII - early XX centuries), Kazakhstan as part of the Soviet administrative-command system, Kazakhstan in the world community (1991-2022).

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disciplines

Abais Teaching
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form in future specialists the ability to self-knowledge, the use of Abai's doctrine as the basis of spirituality and intellectuality of modern Kazakhstan, the application of their professional knowledge, understanding and abilities through the prism of humanism and education in order to strengthen the unity of the country and civil solidarity of society.The following will be studied: the concept of the teachings of Abai; sources of teaching; components of Abai's doctrine; categories of Abai's doctrine; assessment tools of the teachings of Abai; the essence and meaning of Abai’s doctrine.

Al-Farabi and Modernity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim of the discipline is to form students' ideas about the scientific and philosophical heritage of the great Turkic thinker Abu Nasr al-Farabi in developing the world and national culture. Learning outcomes: explain the main philosophical contents al-Farabi's heritage and his influence on the formation of Turkic philosophy; influence European Renaissance.

Basics of Financial Literacy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form rational financial behavior in students based on building a direct connection between understanding financial information and their practical application for making competent and informed decisions regarding personal finances and increasing their economic security, as well as the ability to critically evaluate and analyze processes related to protection their rights and interests as consumers of financial services through the use of financial instruments, including digital technologies.

Chemistry and Physics of Nuclear Fuels
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - During this course, students will study different types of nuclear fuels. They will learn how to evaluate the thermo-chemical properties of nuclear fuels and predict chemical reactions between materials in the reactor core. They will be taught how to determine mechanical and thermal stresses and limits for fuel rods and calculate corrosion potentials. Students will also gain knowledge on identifying major safety issues that emerge with increasing burn-up.

Ecology and Human Life Safety
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal of the discipline is to form a number of key competencies based on modern concepts of environmental management, implementing the principles of harmonious optimization of human interaction with nature. The following will be studied: the principles of sustainable development, conservation and reproduction of natural resources to ensure the safety of human life, methods for assessing and minimizing risks, protecting against dangers, including during travel, measures to eliminate the consequences of accidents, anthropogenic disasters, natural disasters, environmental protection and rational environmental management.

Electrotechnical fundamentals of instruments and Technology of physical installations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Electrical engineering and fundamentals of electronics. Classification of physical installations. Linear DC electric circuits, single-phase and three-phase alternating current circuits, magnetic circuits, non-linear circuits. Fundamentals of physics of accelerators. Safety of electrophysical installations. Electrical measurements and instruments.

Entrepreneurship
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of practical skills for carrying out entrepreneurial activities. Student able to: use market opportunities that correspond to their interests and abilities; make an initial decision about business; work effectively within the framework of legal norms; evaluate the potential market opportunities of a startup.

Hydromechanics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is to develop the ability to describe the behavior and properties of static and dynamic liquids, to apply the basic laws of fluid mechanics to calculate the description of their properties. The following topics will be considered: working fluids and their properties, issues of fluid motion, the study of the influence of forces on fluid motion, viscosity and other physical and mechanical properties of liquids, calculation of flow rate and flow rate, calculation of pipelines.

Instruments and methods of experimental physics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Modern detectors of nuclear radiation (composition and principle of operation). Equipment and instruments for experimental research in various fields of physics. Special methods for processing experimental data. Working with large amounts of data. Methods and means of physical experiment. Modeling of physical phenomena and processes. Automation of a physical experiment.

Interaction of Radiation with Matter and Shielding
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Students will study types of radiations and effects of their interaction with matter and biological systems. They will learn different types of interaction channels for each type of radiation. They will also study types of shielding materials for radiation protection.

Legal Bases of Corruption Control
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a responsible attitude and the ability to demonstrate in practice the application of the principles and norms of anti-corruption legislation in order to prevent corruption offenses, to form intolerance towards corruption, an anti-corruption culture in everyday life and at the workplace, civil liability. The following will be studied: anti-corruption legislation, the system and activities of anti-corruption subjects, causes and conditions conducive to corruption, anti-corruption policy, international experience in combating corruption.

Nuclear Facility Controlling and Protection
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - A nuclear facility contains many components and equipment that have to be operated in a well-coordinated way. This coordination is performed by instrumentation and control (I&C) systems. These systems allow nuclear facility personnel to monitor the status of the nuclear facility more effectively, identify opportunities for improved performance of equipment and systems, and anticipate, understand and respond to potential problems. During this course, students will learn how to monitor the proper operation of the nuclear facility through I&C systems and respond to malfunctioning.

Nuclear plant design and simulation
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Designs of various types of nuclear reactors and their features. The main elements of nuclear power plants. Fundamentals of designing nuclear installations. Computer-aided design systems (CAD). Calculation of neutron-physical parameters of a steady-state reactor. Calculation of parameters of non-steady-state and transient processes of a nuclear reactor.

Nuclear plant safety design
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Basics of design engineering. Computer-aided design systems (CAD). Unified system of design documentation. Classification of safety systems. Design features of nuclear installations. Active and passive safety systems. Analog and digital safety systems. Interface between nuclear safety and nuclear security.

Nuclear Power Economics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The role of nuclear energy in generating electricity and achieving carbon neutrality. Introduction to the economics of a nuclear power plant (NPP). Fundamentals and calculation of the economic model of nuclear power plants. Influence of external and internal factors on the economy of nuclear power plants.

Nuclear Rules and Regulations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Normative-technical documentation in the field of nuclear, radiation and security safety. Sanitary rules and hygienic standards for ensuring radiation safety. Safety culture. International rules and recommendations for ensuring the safe operation of nuclear reactors and electrical physical installations.

Nuclear Spectrometry and Radiometry
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - During this course, students will be taught to probe material properties by nuclear spectrometric methods. They will study methods for trace element analysis such as neutron activation analysis as well as methods for solid mater studies (Nuclear magnetic resonance, Mossbauer spectroscopy, etc).

Nuclear, Radiation and Environmental Safety
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - In this course, students will study potential threats to humans and environment posed by usage of artificial radiation (biological effects of radioactive radiation, maximum permissible public dose, release of radioisotopes to the environment, dispersion in the atmosphere and in aquatic systems). They will also learn how to ensure nuclear, radiation and environmental safety measures and how to draw up emergency preparedness plans.

Radiation Sensors and Detectors
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - In this course, students will study basic principles of electromagnetic and nuclear radiations detection and types of different detection systems in nuclear physics. They will learn how to operate different types of detection systems and the domain of their application.

Radioactive waste management
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Students will study nature of radioactive waste and its classifications by activity. They will study how to identify basic characteristics and forms of radioactive waste. They will learn how radioactive waste is produced at each stage of the nuclear cycle. Students will also learn basic principles of handling, transporting, storing and disposing technologies for each type of waste. They will study differences between on-site and off-site storage; spent fuel reprocessing and disposal methods; radioactive waste management plans and practices in various countries.

Reactor Fundamentals
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Students will study main design and operating features of nuclear reactors and principles of energy conversion. They will be taught basic elements of reactor operation on low and highly enriched uranium. They will also study main physical components of reactors such as turbines, generators, water supply and electrical systems.

Reactor Material Science
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Introduction to reactor materials science. Solid state physics. Structural and functional materials. Mechanical and physical properties of functional and structural materials. Corrosion and protection of materials. Physical methods for studying the structure of a material. Influence of radiation on the properties of materials.

Scientific Research Methods
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Рurpose: to form a methodological and scientific culture, a system of knowledge, skills and abilities in the organization and conduct of scientific research. General scientific research methods are studied, including methods of searching, processing, systematization, analysis, synthesis, generalization and argumentation of scientific information to obtain the objective content of scientific knowledge.

Theoretical foundations of the functioning of Radiophysical Installations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Basic principles of operation of physical installations. Fundamentals of physics of nuclear reactors and particle accelerators. Safety aspects of physical installations. Classification of installation elements for safety. Regulatory requirements for the operation and safety of physical installations. Efficiency of utilization of the physical installations.

Thermal-Hydraulics in Nuclear energy engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Course content: Basic concepts and definitions of the theory of heat transfer. Forced convection in laminar and turbulent flow regimes in pipes. Thermal hydraulics in nuclear reactors. Heat release in the coolant, structural and protective materials and residual heat release. Calculation of the temperature distribution in the fuel assembly. temperature gradient in the reactor.

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INTERNSHIPS

Professional (Educational) Practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Will be studied: consultation of the head of practice from the department; familiarization with the scientific directions of the department, the structure of the faculty and the university. The main purpose of the discipline is consolidation of the received theoretical knowledge, professional orientation of students; familiarization and study of the organization of activity, structure, directions of scientific activity of the department, faculty, university.

Professional (pre-diploma) Practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim of the pre-diploma practice: deepening and consolidation of theoretical knowledge gained in the process of learning, the selection and systematization of material for the thesis; writing a thesis; preliminary defense of the thesis.

Professional (Training) Practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Objective: to consolidate the theoretical and practical knowledge obtained at the university, acquaintance with the organization and production technology, the acquisition of practical skills and professional experience in the specialty under study. Passage of professional practice in domestic enterprises of the nuclear industry.

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